Greenhouse Canteen is a 100% plant-pure vegan restaurant chain headquartered in Australia. Local vegan owner operator Joshua Douglass launched its first US restaurant in Grandview in Oct 2020, in spite of covid. They have still managed to survive through some of the toughest years in business this millennium, as covid dramatically impacted our lives in so many ways.

The jury deliberated for eighteen hours over three days but could not reach a verdict in the trial of Andrew K. Mitchell for murder or voluntary manslaughter in the death of Donna Dalton (aka Castleberry) in August 2018 during a botched prostitution arrest. Dalton’s family alleges it was a kidnapping by a corrupt vice cop that went terribly awry.

Mitchell can be tried again with a new jury. Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack released a statement. “The State of Ohio will be carefully reviewing all available options to bring finality to this matter and will make a public announcement in several days.”

His next trial for kidnapping and other lesser charges, including witness intimidation, will begin this September in Federal Court. These charges are related to Dalton’s death because the alleged victims were also sex workers. The US Attorney alleges Mitchell kidnapped women under the guise of an arrest and then forced his victims to engage in sex acts for their freedom. He will remain in custody pending that trial.

Utter chaos in Ohio’s gerrymandering war and the California’s big green shift define our GREE-GREE zoom #90.

We are now officially the GREEN GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION Coalition.  Saving the planet is inseparable from saving our elections.  

Today’s amazing gathering deals with the blood war over Ohio’s Congressional and Legislative districts, now being sabotaged by a GOP determined to trash the will of the Buckeye State as expressed by two popular referenda demanding a fair districting process.

We hear from COMMON CAUSE, the LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, INDIVISIBLE and more on a battle that could determine control of the US House, the Ohio Legislature and thus our future.  JOEL SEGAL fills us in on the Constitutional legalities.

ANDREA MILLER briefs us on grassroots organizing for 2022.

Then we hear from TATANKA BRICCA and SARA NELSON and more on fight to take California—and thus the United States and the world—to green power.  WENDI LEDERMAN fills in from Florida.  

This is a powerful, packed excursion in the election and energy democracy.  Don’t miss it!
 

I call the public’s attention to today’s radical, unprecedented, unconstitutional, and inhumane campaign to ban books in schools. It combines intersecting dimensions that span history, education, child development, and respect for the text and legal and cultural traditions of “We the People,” “Public Welfare” and “Public Interest.” It includes the rights of children, for which we fought from the late 19th century into the present.

I write as a historian of literacy and education, and children and youth; a teacher of college students for almost 50 years; and a concerned citizen. My colleagues and friends include authors of national prize-winning, young adult novels banned in several states on false grounds.